1. The Indian Nationalist Movement and Gender Relations
... Her simple presence led to thousands of women partaking in protest. It is commonly mentioned that salt protests were successful become of women, 'for not only making salt, but sat openly at markets selling and buying it'. 16 The effectiveness behind the Ghandi march is that it gave women a common purpose. The feminine qualities, and their roles as mothers, & ... involvement in the campaign, demanded more. 'Gender equality, questioned gender-based division of labour and highlighted the oppressive nature of the existing patriarchal structure'. 26 This tied in with new constituti...
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